Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working on rewrites, 16-hour days, with sweaty men glowering at each other. And Conan would always entertain us; he was the comedy writers' comedian. I'd call him the '90s Steve Allen: smart, funny and very likable, with a more modern sensibility." The key is likability -- that elusive, soft-core charisma. Has Conan got it? "He doesn't have the sardonic glibness of Letterman," says Betsy Frank, a senior vice president at advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, "which a lot of people like but probably a lot more people find a bit tiring. Conan has a purer kind of humor...
...most valuable commodity of McCaw Cellular is Craig McCaw. Soft- spoken and unassuming, McCaw is a demanding chief executive who drives a 10-year-old car and wears a $30 plastic digital watch. A licensed pilot, he relaxes by flying his De Havilland-Beaver seaplane to remote lakes in the Pacific Northwest. The McCaw family, including Craig and his brothers, owned 20% of their company's stock. When the AT&T purchase is completed, their holdings will be worth a combined $2.8 billion, making the McCaws AT&T's largest independent shareholders. Craig, who will become an AT&T board...
...that mutes the melodrama inherent in Aaron's encounters with crime, illness and loss. Aaron must improvise his response to events without fully understanding them, and that comes closer to the truth about boyhood than most movies do. It was a directorial mistake to bathe the images in a soft glow. But that visual error is not compounded psychologically. The film has a tough core, and in a time when movies about the troubles of little boys are a sentimental subgenre and dysfunction is being too easily overcome, there is something exemplary about this smart little movie...
Most ruinous, title actress Kathryn Zaremba, a nine-year-old from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is loud and clear but never vulnerable or soft -- she's like Ethel Merman at her brassiest, without the compensating musicality, rather than a cuddlesome child. By the end there's hardly a wet eye in the house...
...third movement, where a two-note third was the subject of extensive development. Isolated events in the winds, often based upon a motif of rolling scales up and down, set off punctuation in the brass and strings. At the tranquil end of the movement, the drumbeat returned with a soft flute trill. The wind soloists were all more than competent...